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[Chris Faylor]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 08:10:17PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Christopher Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> writes:
>> 
>> Are we sure that this is a correct analysis?  The previous analysis was
>> that ReadFile was being passed a length which was larger than its
>> supplied buffer.  That is (to me) inarguably wrong.  You can't say "I
>> know how big the file is" because you can *never* know how big the file
>> is in a multi-tasking operating system.
>> 
>> It seems like Dave Bryan went to some effort to track this down and I don't
>> see that his analysis is incorrect.
>
>Dave's analysis is certainly correct, he's done a much more thorough
>analysis of the situation. I had obviously neglected to read through
>the entire thread, and missed some of the analysis.
>
>However, read IMO should not care whether I pass it a valid buffer or
>not if it's at end of file, and should return success and 0 bytes read
>instead.  Doesn't excuse buggy code of course, but my reading of POSIX
>`read' requires this behaviour.

I can't see an easy fix for this behavior other than to detect an
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED in _read and then attempt to see if we're at EOF.
In this case, we'd have to figure out how many bytes are actually left
in the file and just pass that many to ReadFile.  That could still fail,
of course, but in that case, it would be a UNIX-type failure.

cgf